The conference, which will take place in the Saló de graus of the Faculty of Law, is open to the public and forms part of the programme of seminars of the Master's and Doctoral Programme in Human Rights, Democracy and International Law organised by the Institute of Human Rights of the Universitat de València.

Bachelor in Law, Castresana practiced law and entered the prosecutorial career in 1989. He chaired the Unión Progresista de Fiscales (UPF) and joined the Fiscalía Anticorrupción since its creation in 1995, where he was dedicated to investigating economic crimes, in some cases of great national and international relevance. He led notorious investigations, such as the Gil case, into alleged irregularities committed by the late mayor of Marbella and former president of the Atlético de Madrid football club, Jesús Gil y Gil. But the investigation with the greatest impact was the one he presented to the Audiencia Nacional (National Court) against the late Chilean general Augusto Pinochet, whom he accused of genocide, torture and terrorism, as well as the military who had governed Argentina since 1976, which gave rise to the trial against Pinochet and the arrest of the Chilean military man.

In September 2007, it was entrusted by the UN Secretary General to lead the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a unique body dedicated to collaborating with the Guatemalan State in the investigation and dismantling of criminal groups that have embedded themselves in institutions in order to seek impunity. In June 2010, however, the Spanish magistrate resigned as director of CICIG, for the Guatemalan state's "non-compliance" with its commitment to fight impunity. Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the Charles III University of Madrid and Visiting Professor of International Criminal Law at the University of San Francisco, California between 2003 and 2005, Carlos Castresana was Director of Human Rights Programs at his Center for Law and Global Justice. In 1997 he received the National Prize for Human Rights in Spain.